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Newsletter

July 2018

Committee List 2017/2018

President Philip Law 021 132 0071

Vice President Greg Booth 027 256 0470

Secretary Kelsey van Waas 027 3795 002

Treasurer Grant Christian

Trip Coordinator Ella Shailer 0210 227 8088

Newsletter Editor Shaun Robertson 027 378 5607

Website Nick Look 021 499 202

Club Steward President & Vice President

Zone Delegate Ella Shailer 0210 227 8088

Public Relations President and Vice President

Emergency Services Lee Turner 021 834 819

Store /Equipment Officer Phil Shailer 021 130 7913

Rivers Users President and Vice president

Clerk of the Course Daniel Morris

Safety Officer Jordan Law

Extra Committee Jason Hamilton 021 142 6338, Grant Barnard 0210 887 2941

Brendan Brown, Dan Burke, Chris Shailer, Bronte Vincent, Ben Goodall

PO Box 5176, Terrace End, Palmerston North

What’s been happening?

We have had a few good club runs this month including the South beach Wanganui shiny trip, had 15 trucks attend this

finding a bit of mud to play in as well and Mr President managed to get his truck a wee bit stuck and very muddy...

Pureora forest turn out,, 16 Hard Yakka trucks! Two trucks down the second day and the temperatures overnight were

cold enough to freeze the cooling systems on some trucks… All our club flyers had been given out from Repco Fielding,

more to be given away… Had a really good turnout for the Turakina Give it a go day with plenty of enjoyment going

around!!!

For those who are doing trip reports or want anything put in the newsletter, send it on through to my email winch-

man350@gmail.com By the 25th of each month please! See you out there in the mud;-)

Coming up Monthly Meeting: Next meeting is Wednesday 18 July, 7.30pm at the WillowPark Tavern, Tremaine Ave.

Manawatu 4WD Club

8 July Auckland 4WD Club Visitors North Range Road and Takapari Road Trip, Trip Leader: Greg

Booth - CLUB MEMBERS ONLY

29 July Woodville Gymkhana Day, Trip Leader: Jason Hamilton

5 August Mud Drags to Sand Pit-Scott's Ferry, Trip Leader: Stu Earle

Club Champs All

TBC

Round 1 21st October, Round 2 9th December, Round 3 3rd February,

Round 4 3rd March

Trip Info

If you are a club member and you have not had your vehicles tow hooks checked and put on the tow hook

register, that vehicle will not be allowed on club trips. Prospective, new and visiting members can attend trips

without vehicles being on the register. Please contact Lee Turner (021 834 819 ), Nathan Thomsen

(0273036432), Bruce Gilmore (021815907), or Andrew Francis (0276864765) to arrange for your vehicle to be

checked.

National 4x4 Trials Events

Dates are available to be viewed on http://www.nz4x4trials.co.nz/calendar-and-results/

10th November

2018 Round One: Valley 4WD Club

1 December Round Two: Manawatu 4WD Club

19th or 20th Janu-

ary 2019 (date to

be confirmed)

Round Three: South Waikato 4WD Club

9th February 2019 Round Four: Waikato Four Wheel Drive Club

16th or 17th

March 2019 (date

to be confirmed)

Round Five: Bay of Plently Four Wheel Drive

13th April 2019 Round Six: Mt Egmont 4Wheel Drive Club

The President’s Report - July 2018

Presidents Report July 18 Where does a month go, seems like days since I wrote the last blog. Welcome to all new members and prospective members. Hi again to all our 4wd enthusiasts. Mid-winter has come and gone but summer looks far away. Lots happening in the off road scene and plenty of trips happening for all levels from shiny to hard yakka.

By the time you read this a dozen or so trucks will have been on Paul’s hard yakka trip. The week before that we had a shiny trip along the dune tracks on Wanganui South Beach. South beach was a new play ground for our club and didn’t disappoint with a variety of driving conditions. This was a shiny tag along trip aimed at obviously shiny trucks and new drivers to the 4wd scene. Fifteen

trucks came for the day. From soft sand in the dunes, swamps full of mud and water and a little quick sand on the beach. All three of those conditions had some drivers needing recovery. Even though at the last minute we got denied access to the forest it didn’t make a difference to the day, I doubt we would have had time to do both. Definitely will be a track worth doing again, maybe in the reverse direction. So heaps happening in the club, we are still on for a trip on the last weekend of the month, either Saturday or Sunday depending on the trip leader. And we have our club competition starting soon. So don’t let me hear anyone say they have nothing to go to in their trucks. The trip for July is a 4wd gymkhana fun day. This is worth coming along to for no other reason than to laugh at your friends as we try to do the ridiculous. Nothing taking seriously. Although from previous gymkhana days I’ve seen some driver navigator relationships slightly strained, all good fun. My understanding is that there is very likely going to be a play day in the mud and sand on the first week-end of August and most likely by the time you see this a trip sheet will have made its way out. Not enough days in the week. The June club meeting at Willowpark was one of the biggest in attendance we have had for quite a while, it was great to see and motivates me to work harder to deliver the goods when it comes to trips. It was also the first time in years that we had our lucky draw again. Thanks to Ravensdown Fertiliser for supplying a few goodies to give away. Last year we had our first pub quiz and I’m more than happy to put something together for another one, maybe try to get a some prizes sorted out for the winners and losers. My experience with pub quizzes is that some people are way too smart and way too serious. I’ve come to learn that only two teams get a prize, the win-ners and the losers. There is only one prize that we have earned more than once and it’s not the first one ha-ha.

The rain continues to be a nuisance on the farm, I guess it’s too late to get a dry winter. The neighbours bull jumped the fence last September and in the one day that he came to visit he didn’t waste much time making friends, as a result we have new calves on the ground already. So much for a quiet peri-od over winter, the wet makes everything twice as difficult and hasn’t helped with trying to build up feed reserves going into spring. Mother na-ture has thrown everything at us over the past twelve months and we are still recovering. I look forward to seeing lots of you at the next meeting at the Willowpark on the third Wednesday of July.

Regards Philip (Mr President)

Club Champs 2017 - 2018 Final Results

Overall Champion Les Thomsen

Men’s Champion Les Thomsen

Ladies Champion Caitlyn Thomsen

Outlaw Cup Stuart Earle

1st Nissan Les Thomsen

V8 Cup Les Thomsen

Production Cup Dan Burke

Modified Vehicle Les Thomsen

Standard Vehicle Cup Lachlan Fee

The Triers Trophy Mark Lambert

Hard Luck Trophy Brendan Watchorn

Most Helpful Club Member Stuart Earle

Certificate of Achievement Club Champs 2017 Awards

CLUB TRUCK

PLACE NAME POINTS

1 Les Thomsen 298

2 Shaun Robertson 295

3 Caitlyn Thomsen 290

4 Lachlan Fee 280

5 Dan Burke 275

OUTLAW

1 Stuart Earle 297

2 Sam Thomsen 297

3 Mitch Caldow 296

4 Dean Wells 291

Club Champs 2017 - 2018 Results

ROUND 1 ROUND 2

Driver Class Place Class Place

Class Points

OA points Driver Class Place

Class Place

Class points OA points

Sam T o 1 1 100 Stu E o 1 1 100

Mitch o 2 2 99 Sam T o 2 2 99

Dean o 3 3 98 Mitch o 3 3 98

Stu E o 4 4 97 Shaun R m 4 1 100 100

Les T m 6 1 100 100 Les T m 5 2 99 99

Jamie m 7 2 99 99 Nathan T m 6 3 98 98

Tyran A p 8 1 100 98 Jamie m 7 4 97 97

Shaun R m 9 3 98 97 Caitlyn T m 8 5 96 96

Nathan T m 10 4 97 96 Tyran A p 9 1 100 95

Brendan p 11 2 99 95 Lachlan F p 10 2 99 94

Caitlyn T m 12 5 96 94 Dan B s 11 1 100 93

Lachlan F p 13 3 98 93 Shane J o 12 4 97

Keith B m 14 6 95 92 Jordan p 13 3 98 92

Dan B s 15 1 100 91 Dan M s 14 2 99 91

Kelsey s 16 2 99 90 Marcus p 15 4 97 90

Bryce I s 17 3 98 89 Dean o 16 5 96

Chris S o Cam K o 17 6 95

Mark L m Brendan p 18 5 96 89

ROUND 3 FINAL PLACINGS

Driver Class Place Class Place

Class points OA points Class Place OA Points

OA place

Stu E o 1 1 100 Stu E o 297 1 -

Mitch o 2 2 99 mitch o 296 3 -

Sam o 3 3 98 Sam o 297 2 -

Caitlyn T m 4 1 100 100 Dean o 291 4 -

Dean W o 5 4 97

Les T m 6 2 99 99 Caitlyn M 292 3 290 3

Shaun R m 7 3 98 98 Les M 298 1 298 1

Marcus p 8 1 100 97 Shaun M 296 2 295 2

Cam o 9 5 96 Jordan m 195 4 186

mark W p 10 2 99 96

Daniel M p 11 3 98 95

Jordan L m 12 4 97 94 MarkW p 99 96

Lachlan F s 13 2 99 93 Dan M p 197 1 186

Kelsey s 14 3 98 92 Brendan p 195 2 184

Dale 15 NM

Daniel B s 16 4 97 91 Lach s 296 2 280 4

Mark L m 17 4 97 90 Dan B s 297 1 275 5

Kelsey s 197 3 182

Heres some ”Diff-erent” news for the newsletter…

Someone suffered a bit of damage from Pureora Forest, a blown front diff... 1 of a few others that

had been destroyed by a certain Nissan in the past too… A few good mates and family mem-

bers thought this was no good and organised an early present for Nathan Thomsen’s 30th birth-

day . Inside this big wooden box in the photos below which had plenty of nails and screws hold-

ing it together Nathan was swinging at with a crowbar and pulling it apart with his bare hands just

like a kid opening any old present in wrapper he found a box inside with a picture of a diff on it, I

recall him saying something like.. “this box bloody better be what it says it is!” and sure enough

inside that he pulled out an E Locker diff lock!! Nathan is very thankful and completely over-

whelmed and blown away at the number of people that helped organise this present and show

up at his work on the night and help him put his new diff in. One very mighty happy chappy!

This is the diff centre from Nathan’s previously removed front diff

head

Committee Profile

Who: Chris Shailer

Role: Extra Committee

And that means: Thowing a spanner in the works

with the convo’s

Truck: Well its not really a truck but that $1 Rav4

Favourite Tracks: Always loved Hills Hills and good

ol north range road. Looking forward to driving them

again soon.

Favourite Trips this year: Don't think my truck been

going for any trips yet this year

Known for: THAT Rav

Blurb: Trying to get my truck sorted as usual

always fixing bugs i usually make haha but

slowly getting there. It is a Rav after all. Love

me rotas and would love 2 put one in a Rav

just because it aint’ been done yet ae.

Future goals: Hopefully get the truck more

ready for competitions and reliably running on

4 cylinders.

Wangas South Beach Sunday

So it had finally arrived ... the Trip to Wanganui South Beach, had been waiting for this one.

Another chance to get the Jeep muddy again, (not that I had cleaned it since the last trip) and this

time I was actually sorted with my own rear tow hook and everything.

Meeting point was at the parking area past the Wanganui airport somewhere, ended up going

past the speedway first but we were following Greg so it was his fault. Found everyone else al-

ready there so quickly set about airing tyres down.

About 15 trucks had turned up, including a few newbies (I'm not one anymore lol) which was

good to see, in a variety of trucks from a Suzuki Jimny, and a couple of utes, through to the usual

fat cruiser and Nissans.

We had been told by Mr President that the forest part of the trip was cancelled due to some grumpy forest dude saying we couldn't go in there because of logging, so all we had to play in was 14km of beach. That wouldn't take too long you'd think, but at lunch time we'd only made it about half way.

Trip leaders changed a couple of times so we zigged and zagged a bit, which was cool, still driv-ing then we came to a swampy muddy bit yeeha.

A few of the bigger trucks had gone through it by the time I got there so it was a bit cut up and slushy. And bugger it I got stuck and needed a very small light tiny pull to get out, wasn't really that stuck ...lol

In this area a big Nissan got stuck, like really stuck and needed a winch to get him out, and Greg got stuck doing silly stuff and needed a tow from Phil, which turned into a tug of war between the Pres and Vice Pres, boys are dicks .... moved to a clearing after the shananagans and stopped for lunch.

After lunch time to move on... This time Lee in front leading the way, after a secret squirrel detour which will not be talked about - what happens on tour stays on tour, back to tracks and stopping at Whangaehu River its head wa-ters originating from a crater lake of Mount Ruapehu (thanks Mr Google).

Time to start heading home the tide is starting to turn, those that wanted raced ahead we got quite stretched out along the beach, until we came across Grant Barnard stuck in some quick sand truly it was, stopped in his track unable to move but Kiddy Kruizer to the rescue and the Landrover was back on its way

As far as dramas go well that’s all we are able to publish lol and time was getting on so back to carpark from here to air up and go home another great trip Mr President thanks for doing some homework and putting on another great trip - bags not writing up next trip lol

Dee Smith

Palmy Boys taking first place in the Kiwi 4x4 Winch Challenge

Awesome Team Effort Guys!

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Quick note from Dogg... The Club owns a bunch of gear that is for use for members going on Club trips, This includes- Pegs, pigtails, signage, PRS Handhelds, Gazebos, Long snatch strap, Long extention strap, Snatch straps, clipboards, toilet paper, stop watches, PRS and GPS... If your running or going on a Club trip then your welcome to borrow any or all of the gear, Contact Dogg 021 130 7913 or rotordogg@hotmail.com to arrange it, prefer you pick up from Halcombe but some-times pick up in palmy can be arranged.